Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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lllllil-IEKK KEGG!-BE!-llEllG!69E!E laughter and more' flutfy heaps of whipped cream topped with brown roasted pecans. 'llhen from the yel- lowed pages of the past, we skim over the dark present to the blank and empty pages of the future, eager to he filled by our plans, yes, yours and mine, for a once upon a peacetime for tomorrow. Change is inevitable! A startling example of such change is reflected in once comfortably crowded cities, now overflowing with an influx of popula- tion bursting thc seams of hotels, boarding houses, private homes, and even more private park benches. The negro and poor white from the South, the towering lusty cowboy from the western range, thc pink-cheeked milk maid fresh from the countryside, the blustering small town business man, - all have flocked to the city, already congested, and to war plants, ship yards, and ammunition factories, scratching like ill-fed hens at the tempting golden grains of war time wages and the pulsing adventure of the big town. XVork, food, and housing problems have sprouted and grown like ugly weeds to strangle the very breath of life from our people, who water and cultivate them. Defense workers crowded into one room apartments and dumpy little flats throughout the cities, containing four hard beds and twice as many men, sleep in shifts to solve the bed problem. Lack of time and home-cooked meals U!-HBE!!-IBBEHEUEHE I 5 have pushed millions into dingy hash houses to eat improper and unwhole- some foods. The well-known black market has sapped dry food supplies controlled by rationing and price regu- lation, while easy getting and free spending have boosted inflationary prices upon many commodities. Small towns, too, have suffered. The services have drawn manpower from the farm, and migration to boom towns has left more than one ghost village from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, from 'Frisco to Miami. New slum districts rearing their ugly heads to join the old, unsanitary con- ditions increasing at unbelievable rates, youth rapidly becoming delin- quents, - these are the deadly toll of war time living. There is too much getting spending, spending and getting. From the mumblings and confusion of post war plans flowing into the and capital on swift moving tides - plans for unemployment, housing, reconstruc- tion, and readjustment - have risen the unfamiliar words prefabricated housesf? ffsolaru homes, and collapsi- ble dwellings. During the coming period of recon- struction and beyond, these three types of homes will represent the fifth free- dom - freedom from inconvenience, high costs, Icllld inadequacies - free- dom to live. NVhat a tedious job was the pioneer's to stock up his log cabin as compared with the simple task of erecting a pre-

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ififllliiiil-HHEKJEQHK I-lil the Persian Gulf to the west coast of Africa, Tel-Litwinsky can handle seven hundred and fifty men at 01109. lt otfers a luxurious recreation center: splendid food which can be had any time of day, amazing tours of ancient Biblical cities, towns ,and districts like Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, and Jeri- cho for fourteen dollars, which in peace- time would cost a tourist about tive hundred dollars, a11d the bright lights and gaiety of modern Tel-Aviv. Cap- tain Lloyd Howard, former superin- tendent of playgrounds at Lynchburg, Virginia, who now runs the camp, says to each incoming group of servicemen, 'l'n1 just running a hotel for 'Uncle Sam. Vile 're trying to provide you with everything but breakfast in bed, and Wl'.1'9 working on that. ln India, as a result of an lndia-wide morale survey worked on by a hundred wtfieers. social clubs are going up with iostesses flown from America by the Red Cross. Everything conceivable from radios to portable cinema projectors with few- weeks old films are going to men in the camps. Broadcasts and swing music from home compete with the sou11d of tribal drums at night. Athletic equip- ment, musical instruments, and indoor James are part of the camp's recrea- tional achievements. Outside of camp men are being invited to upper-class Indian homes and are invading places which a year ago were frequented Jnly by officers of the king. lil-HI-lil In spite of all that has been accom- plished for servicemen, many are still inclined to ask whether the American Theater NVing, the Red Cross, and the llnited States Army are justified in opening canteens and providing enter- tainment for servicemen. Fan mail, the comments of the servicemen, and the enthusiastic response of the servicemen themselves are tl1e best answers as to whether entertainment is an essential part of training. DREAMLINE TOMORROW by Joanne Fuller NCE upon a peacetime the simple familiar phrase, l'll be home for dinner didn 't mean much. But that was yesterday. Now. men are battling in deserts or on lliiIlgl'0l'0l1S beaches, above the clouds or under the sea, for that right 'sto come home for dinner. As we paste current events of today in our life's scrapbook, we can look beyond the manless Mondays, meatless Tuesdays. and maidless doomsdays, be- yond soy-bean substitutes to form our plans for tomorrow. As the pages of time are thumbed through, there are reminders of what was and what shall be again, - good food and the affec- tionate easy laughter of a family sit- ting together around a dinner table, with no empty places, - a summer evening's tour to the Bijou, and the proverbial ice cream sundae that fol- lowed, accompanied by more easy 27

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IEUEKIEBEEQEBEIEK fabricated house. Construction is a matter of minutes. If l were to drive through the outskirts of Rowley one day and come back the next a huge city of such houses spreading from end to end over this now small town could be constructed within the few hours of my trip. VVith the introduction of the prefabricated house how fast the now speeding earth will spin. Manufactured on mass production the walls, ceilings, and partitions will be uniform and complete with heating systems and water pipes, insulation, and electric lighting. Of course the homes will be copy-cattish. but this allows the talents of the modern house- wife to show up. Pop won't have to drag out of bed in zero weather to shove coal in the old block furnace. There won 't be any. A vestpocket fur- nace hung from a rafter in the ceiling will be available after the war accord- ,ng to its present promise in drying aoldiers' laundry. In cold weather I ahould think it would be possible to 'arry this H 'tby Sl heater in one's woeliet. No more cold feet - or eold loses. Another amazing advantage of our luture home is its semi-porous walls. vhieh absorb all sound. lVhat a bless-- ng will be the peaceful sleep undis- urbed by eternal cat tights, a fretful Kjunior'l, and even the rooster's fa- miliar cock-a-doodle-doo. These very same porous walls will Ie the answer to the picture hanger 's irayers. Many enjoyable hours will I-Blllllllllil be spent moving pictures and nails from one end of the wall to the other since all holes disappear when the nail is removed. lf in a fit of rage, you bang your head against the wall the only dent will be in your head. You see such walls do have their advan- tages. From the prefabricated house with its vest pocket walls and semi-porous furnace we turn to the solar homes, the revolutionizer of the heating sys- tem. lts walls of sheer glass will allow the sun to till its interior with heat and Eaves built out from a flat roof regu- late are warm in the winter and eool in the summer. And with the introduc- tion of the solar home that old proverb people who live in glass houses light from morning 'til night. the sun rays so that the rooms shouldn 't throw stones will come true. This type of dwelling also has its sanitary and economical advantages. first. sinee abundance of light aids the eyes. and the sun 's healthful rays are shining constantly through the panes of glassg and. secondly, sinee the coal bill is discarded and the eleetrie light bill is cut in half. However, the solar house will have its greatest sueeess in regions nearer the 'South where the sun is in a more favorable position. The third type of future dwelling, then, is the collapsible home - an amazing contraption that can be put up and pulled down as neatly and quickly as a tent. Constructed along the lines of the prefabricated house it